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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-95 Payload Specialist John Glenn (left), who is a senator from Ohio, and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai (extreme right), who represents the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), check out equipment during SPACEHAB familiarization at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility, Cape Canaveral. The mission, scheduled to launch Oct. 29, includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging proces